Microsoft Knows Exactly Where Intel's Future Is

Posted by redknight666 on Friday June 05, 2015 @12:29PM
from the wired.com dept.

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/microsoft-knows-exactly-intels-future

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Re:Microsoft Knows Exactly Where Intel's Future Is by bcg1 on Friday June 05, 2015 @01:57PM (#9666905)

Summary - Intel buys FPGA manufacturer, Microsoft is trying to use FPGAs with Intel processors to make Bing faster.

Kudos to Bunnie for actually already producing a laptop that pairs a CPU and an FPGA on the same board, and making it free and open source:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena

He makes the big guys look like a bunch of johnny-come-latelys

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Re:Microsoft Knows Exactly Where Intel's Future Is by astrodust on Friday June 05, 2015 @02:50PM (#9667271)

When Intel applies their process knowledge to manufacturing FPGAs, they could really boost the capability of these chips and slash prices aggressively.

Now if only they could improve the tooling.

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